On Turkish talk shows, one hears repeatedly the following question posed: Is Turkey powerful enough to survive this confrontation without being thoroughly destabilized, its tourist industry wrecked, its very recent years of relative affluence neutralized?
Americans, due to what I've called for years "the pathology of affluence," have become overly-materialistic and insular.
It's as if the country has aged into an overworked adult, maladjusted through heady years of adulation and affluence, and now older, out of shape, feeling its mortality and in need of psychoanalysis (or at least a reasonably priced juicer); a jittery, paranoid xenophobe who only acts charitably if spurred by the promise of profit or the threat of violence.
A growing number of low-cost carriers have increased demand by providing affordable travel in recent years, while rising levels of affluence are expected to increase demand by Asian travelers still further.
A whole coterie of experts has sprung up in the last few years to coach the children of affluence into the working world.
The developer is a quiet, witty man, with a taste for luxury cultivated during his years of rapid acquisition and affluence under the previous regime.
But with the campaign taking place during a still-difficult economy, the wealth of the candidates in Connecticut creates a bit of a challenge for their advertising teams: How do you boil more than 55 years of privilege and astounding affluence into 30 seconds of homespun appeal?
Meanwhile, he had married the dowager countess of Warwick and spent the remaining years of his life in comparative affluence at Holland House in Kensington.
They were married in June , 1948 and their first child, Adrienne, was born the following year....In 1953, enjoying his first real taste of affluence, Belafonte moved from Washington Heights into a white neighborhood in Elmhurst, Queens.
